{"id":227415,"date":"2019-08-19T19:18:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T23:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=227415"},"modified":"2019-08-19T19:22:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T23:22:41","slug":"census-figures-show-economic-gap-narrows-with-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/19\/census-figures-show-economic-gap-narrows-with-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Census figures show economic gap narrows with citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Foreign-born residents had higher rates of being employed full-time than those born in the United States last year, and naturalized immigrants were more likely to have advanced degrees than the native-born, according to figures released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau. (Pexels Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ORLANDO, Fla. \u2060\u2014\u00a0Foreign-born residents had higher rates of being employed full-time than those born in the United States last year, and naturalized immigrants were more likely to have advanced degrees than the native-born, according to figures released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau.<\/p>\n

The new figures show that the economic gap between the native-born and foreign-born in the United States appears to narrow with citizenship.<\/p>\n

Immigrants who weren’t citizens had higher rates of poverty, lower income, and less education last year compared to native-born citizens. But immigrants who were citizens had less poverty, close to equal earnings and higher rates of advanced degrees than native U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n

“Naturalized citizens tend to have lived in the country longer than non-citizens … They tend to have higher levels of education and they tend to work in professions that have higher pay than non-citizens,”\u00a0said Stefan Rayer, a demographer at the University of Florida. “Often times, these characteristics are interrelated, that is more education leading to higher earnings and lower rates of poverty.”<\/p>\n

The 2018 figures from the Current Population Survey offer a view of immigrants’ education levels, wealth, and the jobs they work in as the U.S. is engaged in one of the fiercest debates in decades about the role of\u00a0immigration.<\/p>\n

Stopping the flow of immigrants into the U.S. has been a priority of the Trump administration, which has proposed denying green cards to immigrants who use Medicaid and fought to put a citizenship question on the decennial Census questionnaire.<\/p>\n

Monday’s figures also look at differences between naturalized immigrants and those who aren’t citizens. The U.S. in 2018 had 45.4 million foreign-born residents, or about 1 in 7 U.S. residents.<\/p>\n

Education appears to play a role in narrowing the income gap between the native-born and the foreign-born.<\/p>\n

Overall, naturalized immigrants had a slightly smaller median income than the native-born \u2060\u2014\u00a0$50,786 compared to $51,547 \u2060\u2014\u00a0but noncitizen immigrants trailed them both with a median income of $36,449.<\/p>\n

But naturalized immigrants with a college degree surpassed college-educated natives’ income, and both naturalized immigrants and noncitizens with advanced degrees had higher median incomes than U.S. natives with advances degrees.<\/p>\n

“Immigrants with advanced degrees, whether naturalized or not, may be more clustered in occupations with higher pay than the native population,”\u00a0Rayer said.<\/p>\n

About half of the U.S. foreign-born came from Latin America, less than a third came from Asia and 10 per cent came from Europe. European immigrants were older than other immigrants with a median age of 50 \u2060\u2014\u00a0roughly six years higher than other immigrants.<\/p>\n

More than a quarter of noncitizen immigrants were in service jobs, while almost a quarter of immigrants who were citizens were in professional jobs, according to the Census Bureau figures.<\/p>\n

Asians and Europeans had the highest rates of advanced degrees \u2060\u2014\u00a0about a quarter of both immigrant groups had a master’s degree or higher. About 1 in 20 immigrants from Latin America had a master’s degree or higher.<\/p>\n

Immigrants, both naturalized and noncitizens, were overwhelmingly urban and suburban dwellers. Less than 1 in 20 immigrants lived outside of a metropolitan area last year, compared to about 1 in 7 for native-born citizens, according to the figures.<\/p>\n

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